University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science in the Stanford/Elsevier 2026 list
The Stanford/Elsevier list covers the top 2% most-cited scientists in each subfield. These are the people from this institution on at least one of its two rankings: career-long and single-year (citations from 2025).
77
researchers on the list
307
rank in United States
852
rank worldwide, of 38,384
Ranks by number of people on the list; we calculate them from the same data.
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| Name | Subfield | Career | Single-year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wadley, Hayden N.G. | Materials | 131 / 330,896 | 194 / 330,896 |
| Scully, John R. | Materials | 216 / 330,896 | 232 / 330,896 |
| Opila, Elizabeth J. | Materials | 492 / 330,896 | 254 / 330,896 |
| Lin, Zongli | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 107 / 131,085 | 282 / 131,085 |
| Tao, Gang | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 115 / 131,085 | 228 / 131,085 |
| West, Jennifer L. | Biomedical Engineering | 73 / 74,543 | 310 / 74,543 |
| Li, Xiaodong (Chris) | Materials | 267 / 330,896 | 661 / 330,896 |
| Campbell, Joe Charles | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 47 / 140,272 | 45 / 140,272 |
| Agnew, Sean R. | Materials | 299 / 330,896 | 475 / 330,896 |
| Sidiropoulos, Nicholas D. | Networking & Telecommunications | 208 / 228,312 | 258 / 228,312 |
| Davis, Robert J. | Physical Chemistry | 88 / 44,088 | 261 / 44,088 |
| Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf, Doris | Materials | 388 / 330,896 | 1,653 / 330,896 |
| Zhigilei, Leonid V. | Applied Physics | 752 / 323,282 | 1,031 / 323,282 |
| Geise, Geoffrey M. | Chemical Engineering | 625 / 97,821 | 242 / 97,821 |
| Johnson, Deborah G. | Applied Ethics | 133 / 6,701 | 41 / 6,701 |
| Rossnagel, Stephen M. | Applied Physics | 1,043 / 323,282 | 2,174 / 323,282 |
| Poon, S. Joseph | Applied Physics | 1,367 / 323,282 | 1,852 / 323,282 |
| Fox, Geoffrey Charles | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 1,219 / 517,648 | — |
| Baragiola, Raùl A. | Applied Physics | 1,584 / 323,282 | 3,473 / 323,282 |
| Howe, J. M. | Materials | 944 / 330,896 | 4,797 / 330,896 |
| Zhang, Aidong | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 1,475 / 517,648 | 3,548 / 517,648 |
| Johnson, Robert A. | Applied Physics | 1,984 / 323,282 | 6,614 / 323,282 |
| Carta, Giorgio | Chemical Engineering | 353 / 97,821 | — |
| Balachandran, Prasanna Venkataraman | Materials | 3,255 / 330,896 | 1,908 / 330,896 |
| Acton, Scott Thomas | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 1,900 / 517,648 | — |
| Gangloff, Richard P. | Materials | 1,296 / 330,896 | 3,845 / 330,896 |
| Bechta Dugan, Joanne Bechta | Operations Research | 337 / 31,951 | — |
| Ozbulut, Osman E. | Civil Engineering | 1,027 / 67,736 | 550 / 67,736 |
| Lakshmi, Venkat | Geological & Geomatics Engineering | 534 / 82,760 | — |
| Humphrey, Joseph A.C. | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | 767 / 157,792 | — |
| Bean, John C. | Applied Physics | 2,718 / 323,282 | — |
| Fletcher, P. Thomas | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 2,303 / 517,648 | 8,535 / 517,648 |
| Zebarjadi, Mona | Applied Physics | 3,766 / 323,282 | 2,072 / 323,282 |
| Shiflet, Gary J. | Materials | 1,677 / 330,896 | — |
| Hudson, John L. | Fluids & Plasmas | 1,212 / 58,297 | — |
| Knight, John C. | Software Engineering | 305 / 24,083 | — |
| Tran, Thanh Nhan Duc | Environmental Engineering | — | 849 / 68,664 |
| Dong, Haibo | Aerospace & Aeronautics | 879 / 66,382 | 226 / 66,382 |
| Caliari, Steven R. | Biomedical Engineering | — | 632 / 74,543 |
| Esfarjani, Keivan | Applied Physics | — | 2,716 / 323,282 |
| Park, Byungkyu (Brian) | Logistics & Transportation | 271 / 32,287 | 723 / 32,287 |
| Epling, William S. | Physical Chemistry | 536 / 44,088 | 513 / 44,088 |
| Gupta, Mool C. | Applied Physics | 4,330 / 323,282 | 5,442 / 323,282 |
| Floro, Jerrold Anthony | Applied Physics | 4,430 / 323,282 | — |
| Ihlefeld, Jon F. | Applied Physics | — | 3,118 / 323,282 |
| Fioretto, Ferdinando | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 7,333 / 517,648 |
| Gillies, George Thomas | Biomedical Engineering | 734 / 74,543 | — |
| Jacob, Mathews | Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging | 1,498 / 129,561 | 903 / 129,561 |
| Yi, Xu | Optics | — | 813 / 83,504 |
| Kelly, Robert G. | Energy | 3,278 / 371,959 | — |
| Kent, Richard Wesley | Logistics & Transportation | 411 / 32,287 | — |
| Highley, Christopher B. | Biomedical Engineering | — | 962 / 74,543 |
| Pfister, Olivier | Optics | 1,261 / 83,504 | 882 / 83,504 |
| Zhou, Lin | Applied Physics | — | 4,019 / 323,282 |
| Chandra, Rohan | Industrial Engineering & Automation | — | 2,419 / 131,085 |
| Ul Hassan, Wajih | Networking & Telecommunications | — | 2,733 / 228,312 |
| Knospe, Carl R. | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 1,799 / 131,085 | — |
| McDonnell, Stephen J. | Applied Physics | — | 4,274 / 323,282 |
| Calhoun, Benton Highsmith | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | 775 / 133,072 | 1,040 / 133,072 |
| Ke, Liqin | Applied Physics | — | 4,508 / 323,282 |
| Norris, Pamela Marie | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | 1,902 / 157,792 | — |
| Furukawa, Tomonari | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 1,991 / 131,085 | — |
| Johnson, William C. | Materials | 3,925 / 330,896 | — |
| Wulf, William A. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 5,950 / 517,648 | — |
| Jesser, William A. | Applied Physics | 7,033 / 323,282 | — |
| Smith, Brian Lee | Logistics & Transportation | 522 / 32,287 | — |
| Brandt-Pearce, Maïté | Networking & Telecommunications | 2,757 / 228,312 | — |
| Humphrey, Marty A. | Distributed Computing | 74 / 9,369 | — |
| Beling, Andreas | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 1,145 / 140,272 | 1,122 / 140,272 |
| Iwasaki, Tetsuya | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 2,258 / 131,085 | — |
| Chen, Donna T. | Logistics & Transportation | 590 / 32,287 | — |
| Wood, Houston G. | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | 2,425 / 157,792 | — |
| Bolton, Matthew L. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 8,172 / 517,648 | — |
| Wilson, Stephen G. | Networking & Telecommunications | 3,483 / 228,312 | — |
| Chelliah, Harsha Kumar | Energy | 6,433 / 371,959 | — |
| Pfaltz, John L. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 9,459 / 517,648 | — |
| Scott Barker, N. Scott | Networking & Telecommunications | 4,467 / 228,312 | — |
Source: Ioannidis JPA, Elsevier (2026). August 2026 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators". Mendeley Data, version 9. Licence CC BY-NC 3.0. doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.9
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